by Richard W | Dec 27, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
There are many ways to update and upgrade packages in Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) systems. Two of the most frequently used methods are via the command line and your desktop tools (GUI). Updating your system via the command-line is the fastest way to do it, even...
by Richard W | Dec 26, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Windows
Dell Marketing Department is giving away a free Windows 8 for dummies eBook to Windows 8 users. The e-Book is about 138 pages long and covers everything from the new Start Screen in Windows 8 to finding your desktop and configuring your devices. All you have to do to...
by Richard W | Dec 23, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux
CDemu is a program suite designed to emulate an optical disc drive, also known as virtual drive in Linux systems. It was original called Virtual CD but in 2007 was renamed to CDemu. It allows you to create a virtual disc drives in Linux systems and mount images like...
by Richard W | Dec 18, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Windows
VidShot Capturer is a screen capturing or screencaster program that helps you quickly capture and record your desktop session, then convert it into a video file that can be shared and viewed online or via popular media players. We discussed similar program in Ubuntu...
by Richard W | Dec 17, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Windows
The Folks behind the most popular open source media player called VideoLAN or VLC for short has just released version 2.0.5 which fixes many bugs and some regressions of the 2.0.x branch of VLC. This update also introduces many important fixes to MKV, SWF, AIFF, RTSP,...
by Richard W | Dec 14, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Windows
By now you probably already know that Bing is Microsoft Search Engine and comes with Windows 8 as the default search engine for Internet Explorer. It’s not bad, and really have some cool features, like Facebook integration and cool images as backgrounds that are not...